Not much is understood of this opening, not the parts showing the school busses. You see in 1976 in Boston, it was determined that some of the public schools (where the black kids lived) no one was learning anything. You couldn't fire all the teachers, they had unions and seniority. And you couldn't expel all the students who were monsters, students who made life hell for the kids who really wanted to learn, they were guaranteed an education. So the solution crafted by liberals is take a large percentage of the black students out of the schools where they weren't learning anything and send them to the more well-off schools with white/Irish students. Needless to say, the whites/Irish of Boston (who were supposedly very liberal and accepting) went full on racist. They had riots at the schools as parents saw their own children sent to black schools. That is when we had the "Soiling of Old Glory" at Boston City Hall. Not much has changed.
"When you decide to be something, you can be it that's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was you're age they would say you can become cops or criminals. Today what I am saying is this : When you're facing a loaded gun, whats the difference" That is such a powerful line
The mafia = CIA wanted control in Washington D.C. and Kennedy wouldn't give it to them so they took it. May rest in Peace. What he is referring to is the assassination of JFK
Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest american directors in history! Thank you Mr. Scorsese for Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York and The Departed. Greetings from Poland!
The editors are altering the speed Gimme Shelter replays at and also adjusting its position on the beat ever so slightly. Badasses. Also it is modulated.
No one gives it to you. You have to take it. How you take it is up to you. You can step on everyone's toes, or you can do it with respect. Success isn't simply measured in dollars. You can't take it with you when you die.
“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me”. I was young when I watched this movie and certainly thought this was motivational.
One of my favorite things about this movie is Martin Scorsese's choice of background music. During some of the most brutal parts of the movie (such as the scene in which Billy is screaming in pain as Frank hits his broken wrist with a boot repeatedly), there's usually some sort of classic rock playing. Somehow, the background music works perfectly with almost every scene. I won't say this is a perfect film, but it's pretty damn close. I don't understand why so many people think it's overrated.
Great intro by Scorsese, I mean: Frank Costello voiceover(Jack Nicholson at his best), some Boston footage and Rolling stone's Gimme shelter in the background.
Costello is an Irish name. It's about as Italian as corn beef and cabbage. Frank Costello used it as a name but it wasn't Italian. His real name was Francesco Castiglia. One of the first Irish prime ministers was John A. Costello. Several Irish names have become anglicised due to immigration. If you went to Ireland and looked in a phone book you probably wouldn't even able to pronounce most of them. Spillane is another Irish name a lot of people confuse as Italian. Knowledge is power!
Best opening scene ever.Exellent writing in this movie.Jack really surprised me,with his portrail of an Irish gangster,kinda reminded me of Wity Bulger.Jack shoulda won Acadmy award,bravo Jack Nicholson!Bravo!
This clip was uploaded literally months after the movie came out, absolutely insane to think this was almost 20 years ago . . 20 years before '06 it was the ****ing peak 80s 😵💫
I love people who think Costello, a ruthless gangster, means that black people should try harder in the job market or some shit when he says "you have to take it". He's criticizing the civil rights movement for being mostly civil and nonviolent. White people bitch about blacks rioting for what they want all the time, look no further than Ferguson. The opening of the film is an IRISH riot from the late sixties, because they did not want their schools desegregated. That's how Costello thinks social change should be done. So please think twice before you piss and moan about the "animals" in Ferguson and then wax poetic about how black people don't understand Frank Costello.
Zmister517 I agree with you......and the riots are happening and they are destroying their "towns" because BLACK PEOPLE DON'T OWN THAT SHIT. The black people in the neighborhoods live and work but don't own. So they say, fuck the owners,.....ya gotta do what ya gotta do to survive!
"I don't wanna be a product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me." Jack Nicholson rules so much. The movie was good, but extremely vulgar at times. Scorsese is easily one of the best directors ever.
I've seen a bit of Scorsese myself and I think this is hands down the best movie I've seen form him, way better than Goodfellas, and my favorite movie of all time.
@threadysparrow Infernal Affairs was a foreign movie that this movie was a remake of kinda, but Jack Nicholson's character is also based on James "Whitey" Bulger.
Top 5 film from Father Scorsese. Not sure if it's better than GoodFellas or Taxi Driver, but this is certainly one of the best films from the modern century. Jack Nicholson is a genius.
i love the beginning it gives you sort of a goodfellas feeling like showing sullavain as a kid and how he gets started on crime just like what happenes with harry and make it look like crimnals are movie stars and jsut walk around taking money and shit it really pulls you in jack nicalson was perfect for that role
@williamrafe1 he was an animal lover too, Greene was a devoted animal lover and owned two pet cats. He had a habit of putting out food for the birds and squirrels. i mean sure he blew people to bits , but he was kind to animals you know? theres good in everyone
@TehSmellulare An army of 3,000 French soldiers collaborated with Hyder Ali to capture Cuddalore. Finally the Battle of Trincomalee took place near that port on September 3. These battles can be seen as the last battles of the Franco-British conflict that encompassed the American War of Independence, and would cease in 1783 with the signature of the 1783 peace treaty.
@FractalBolt2 It's a deliberate and direct reference to one of Scorsese's previous and most popular gangster movies Goodfellas. In it a continuity mistake allows mob boss Paulie the godlike ability to start a sentence with a cigar and finish the last word transporting it to his hand. The shots are cut back to front.
It shows their characters. With costello its money with sullivan its respect and honor. It shows Costellos training of him and how costello grew up and how sullivan is growing up.
When you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?
Iconic.
Man has a point
This movie was loaded with stars and actually lived up the the hype. Jack is awesome.
Martins movies always have killer intros
He starts with character development early which is great cause you get a sense of them from the start.
Not much is understood of this opening, not the parts showing the school busses. You see in 1976 in Boston, it was determined that some of the public schools (where the black kids lived) no one was learning anything. You couldn't fire all the teachers, they had unions and seniority. And you couldn't expel all the students who were monsters, students who made life hell for the kids who really wanted to learn, they were guaranteed an education. So the solution crafted by liberals is take a large percentage of the black students out of the schools where they weren't learning anything and send them to the more well-off schools with white/Irish students. Needless to say, the whites/Irish of Boston (who were supposedly very liberal and accepting) went full on racist. They had riots at the schools as parents saw their own children sent to black schools. That is when we had the "Soiling of Old Glory" at Boston City Hall.
Not much has changed.
As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster.
''no one gives it to ya, you have to take it'' one of my all time favorite lines.
that kid looks so much like Matt Damon, it's insane.
it's his twin brother who has websters disease actually. he's credited as "mini damon"
@@joefagot218 lmfao bruh
@@joefagot218 nah he was just an oops baby Matt’s parents had a bit later on. I guess they figured Matt made it I suppose we can afford another one.
"When you decide to be something, you can be it that's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was you're age they would say you can become cops or criminals. Today what I am saying is this : When you're facing a loaded gun, whats the difference"
That is such a powerful line
This movie is fucking incredible.
Oh, yes!!
@@Angus73 yess
"no one gives it to you, you have to take it" - Life has taught me that. Applies to a lot of things
yes sir, i agree! best quote in the whole movie.
The mafia = CIA wanted control in Washington D.C. and Kennedy wouldn't give it to them so they took it. May rest in Peace. What he is referring to is the assassination of JFK
this exact phrase led me here...
Life can be summed up with this phrase
Kristopher Mancini 🤟
you can recognize a scorsese movie by the simple fact that there's always a rolling stones song
And n word
And usually a decent movie.
@@dylandoge1627 The n word isn't used that much in his movies.
@@shavooutlaw6514 now if it was Tarantino.....
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Or the n word lmao
Amazing opening! Jack is the biggest bad ass, on and off the screen. Come out of retirement Jack. We need you !
7 years later and this comment still holds up
"That's called a paradox"
NAILED IT
probably one of the best intros and intro songs ever
whats the song name?
Gimme shelter - rolling stones
Rituraaj Datta thx 🔥
Not probably my friend; Definitely the best ever!
Great opening scene! I love how Scorcese almost always uses "Gimme Shelter" in his films. It's one of my favorite songs ever.
Gimme Shelter can be applied to anything
What about a funeral
Ha! Totally! Especially when it's played in a Scorcese picture!
"you did good in school?"
"yeah."
"that's good. i did too. they call that a paradox."
brilliant.
I am jacks departed opening.
I see what you did there. Tyler Durden huh
The slightly wavering voice of Jack Nicholson, the music of the Rolling Stones and scenes chosen by Scorsese .. I think I'm in heaven ..
"They call that a paradox." That is such a brilliant line on so many levels.
Jack is an actor who owns his part. One of the greatest actors of our time!
Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest american directors in history! Thank you Mr. Scorsese for Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York and The Departed. Greetings from Poland!
Greatest movie opening ever.
yo
Love all of you. Stop killing each other. Please….take what you need no matter what.
We gotta eat no matter what.
Jack Nicholson is evilness personified, what a personality and screen presence. And those eyebrows of the devil, loved it
"gimme shelter" is the best song the stones have ever and will ever do
It is incredible. I really liked how he uses can you hear Me Knocking in Casino
@@jrobbin24it’s in Black Mass as well, coincidentally about the same gangster (though different director).
The editors are altering the speed Gimme Shelter replays at and also adjusting its position on the beat ever so slightly. Badasses. Also it is modulated.
I just can't get over the fact this clip was uploaded in 2006...
simply brillaint..
"I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. "
Why go to the Navy, when you can be a pirate.
When Gimme Shelter is involved in a Intro then You just know the movie is going to be great.
Scorsese is pure artistic genius
what an intro
personally this was one of the best scenes to me in the movie, and this music fitted in it very well
No one gives it to you. You have to take it. How you take it is up to you. You can step on everyone's toes, or you can do it with respect. Success isn't simply measured in dollars. You can't take it with you when you die.
The Cum town version of this makes me come back to listen to the original every time
insane - jack and the stones are a perfect match for this scene.
RIP Kennedy.
Never Forget - 50 Years On.
2013.
The very first line tells you everything you need to know about this character.
One of the coolest intro songs ever!
“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me”.
I was young when I watched this movie and certainly thought this was motivational.
I hear so many people complain about this and that but jack has it right here. "IF YOU WANT IT, YOU GOT TO TAKE IT"
Clyde Drake he's a fucking racist he called yo Ni****z
Living Buggy words only have power if you give them power, I don't. Sticks and stones you know..
Clyde Drake so you don't give a shit
Living Buggy no words don't effect me lmao, I got bigger fkn problems than a god damn word.
Shit Yeah BTW FUck Racism
The fact that this isn't Scorcese's best film is insane
"They call that a paradox." What a great line.
greatest opening to a movie ever. "no one gives it to ya, you have to take it", no truer words ever spoken lol. awsome movie.
I think it's cool how Jack is shown in shadow, and mostly in profile, throughout most of the opening.
“Kneel! Stand! Kneel! Stand” in Nicholson’s groaning voice this is a great line
THIS TOWN NEEDS AN ENEMA!
oh, wrong movie.
Sitizen Kane Wait til' they get a load of me...
That's how I feel about my hometown.and probably where I am living now.
This movie was perfect. Right up until the 3 Stooges style shoot out at the end, and everytime marky mark opened his mouth.
One of my favorite things about this movie is Martin Scorsese's choice of background music. During some of the most brutal parts of the movie (such as the scene in which Billy is screaming in pain as Frank hits his broken wrist with a boot repeatedly), there's usually some sort of classic rock playing. Somehow, the background music works perfectly with almost every scene.
I won't say this is a perfect film, but it's pretty damn close. I don't understand why so many people think it's overrated.
some of the top actors of a generation leo, jack, mark, matt.. SOLID
Great intro by Scorsese, I mean: Frank Costello voiceover(Jack Nicholson at his best), some Boston footage and Rolling stone's Gimme shelter in the background.
the song makes the shot of going into the store really awesome.
"What I'm saying is when your facing a loaded gun...whats the difference?"
So you saw the video too? That's nice.
I don't want to be a product of my environment, i want my environment to be a product of me - thumbs up for this words !
Costello is an Irish name. It's about as Italian as corn beef and cabbage. Frank Costello used it as a name but it wasn't Italian. His real name was Francesco Castiglia. One of the first Irish prime ministers was John A. Costello. Several Irish names have become anglicised due to immigration. If you went to Ireland and looked in a phone book you probably wouldn't even able to pronounce most of them. Spillane is another Irish name a lot of people confuse as Italian. Knowledge is power!
Costello is irish, Castello is italian like moreno and grande is also italian.
best opening ever... in 4 four minutes there are lots of important and awesome messages mottos for life.
Jeez...she fell funny.
Best opening scene ever.Exellent writing in this movie.Jack really surprised me,with his portrail of an Irish gangster,kinda reminded me of Wity Bulger.Jack shoulda won Acadmy award,bravo Jack Nicholson!Bravo!
"Jeez. She fell funny." XD
Class movie..One of the best ever..
Jack Nicholson is the greatest actor of his generation.
best intro ever. Goosebumps!
" you like bologna and cheese? "
No one gives it to ya, you have to take it.
song is rolling stones-gimme shelter
thank me later
fuck you
John Smith
lol why
fuck you
fuck you
fuck you
NOBODY GIVES IT TO YA, YA HAVE TO TAKE IT
MY new life philosophy
"no one gives it to you... you have to take it"
awesome
Why am I watching this on youtube? Time to dig through my dvd's and watch this on the big screen!
..till this day...I still wonder if he hit up that girl
I think that becomes his chick at the end. The redhead
This clip was uploaded literally months after the movie came out, absolutely insane to think this was almost 20 years ago . . 20 years before '06 it was the ****ing peak 80s 😵💫
Costello is an Irish name.
Yes it is only irish pepole know how to pronounce it Wright
He's the best male actor ever love all his work and this movie is no diffrent, love the paradox comment hehe
I love people who think Costello, a ruthless gangster, means that black people should try harder in the job market or some shit when he says "you have to take it".
He's criticizing the civil rights movement for being mostly civil and nonviolent. White people bitch about blacks rioting for what they want all the time, look no further than Ferguson. The opening of the film is an IRISH riot from the late sixties, because they did not want their schools desegregated. That's how Costello thinks social change should be done. So please think twice before you piss and moan about the "animals" in Ferguson and then wax poetic about how black people don't understand Frank Costello.
Do you know the reason why they rioted.
G4nst4Ch33se you're so full of bs
Zmister517 I agree with you......and the riots are happening and they are destroying their "towns" because BLACK PEOPLE DON'T OWN THAT SHIT. The black people in the neighborhoods live and work but don't own. So they say, fuck the owners,.....ya gotta do what ya gotta do to survive!
Zmister517 Fuck the riots and fuck everyone that supports them. And that includes you.
Who would have thought that a POV shot walking into a shop could be so awesome!
Jack Nicholson's role reminded me the Joker
Especially when he dies.
great movie one of my favorites. di caprio, wahlberg, winstone and nicholson. amazing
"I don't wanna be a product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me." Jack Nicholson rules so much. The movie was good, but extremely vulgar at times. Scorsese is easily one of the best directors ever.
"She fell funny."
i pretty much have all of this dialogue memorized.
Seeing the Irish Americans coming out in force against forced integration, brings a tear to my eye
Gives me chills every time.
I adore Scorsese, but this really is not that great a film and I fail to see why everyone thinks it is.
I've seen a bit of Scorsese myself and I think this is hands down the best movie I've seen form him, way better than Goodfellas, and my favorite movie of all time.
Chippy Vortex That's a shame, because it's really quite flawed, and it's far from being in the upper echelon of Scorsese films.
***** It's simply a recycled, unrestrained, hand-over-fisted mess, filled to the brim with unoriginal ideas and a lack of creative control. Hmmph.
I agree completely. Even the Stones music sounds tired and overdone.
***** I thought Django was QT's worst movie, but its all a matter of taste as you said.
it put hate in your heart
You gotta luv the fact that the red-headed teen Costello flirts with in the store grows up to be his wife
gimme shelter is my favorite song of all time. it's a pefect song for mob movies especially for jack nicholsons opening theme
@threadysparrow Infernal Affairs was a foreign movie that this movie was a remake of kinda, but Jack Nicholson's character is also based on James "Whitey" Bulger.
Top 5 film from Father Scorsese. Not sure if it's better than GoodFellas or Taxi Driver, but this is certainly one of the best films from the modern century. Jack Nicholson is a genius.
i love the beginning it gives you sort of a goodfellas feeling like showing sullavain as a kid and how he gets started on crime just like what happenes with harry and make it look like crimnals are movie stars and jsut walk around taking money and shit it really pulls you in jack nicalson was perfect for that role
I absolutely LOVE that line too!
The Irish Godfather
@GambinoClan ya i thought that too but if you look up costello on wikipedia apparently its actually irish
Great movie .. Great actors
A great opening scene from an even greater movie!
@williamrafe1 he was an animal lover too, Greene was a devoted animal lover and owned two pet cats. He had a habit of putting out food for the birds and squirrels.
i mean sure he blew people to bits , but he was kind to animals you know?
theres good in everyone
@TehSmellulare
An army of 3,000 French soldiers collaborated with Hyder Ali to capture Cuddalore. Finally the Battle of Trincomalee took place near that port on September 3. These battles can be seen as the last battles of the Franco-British conflict that encompassed the American War of Independence, and would cease in 1783 with the signature of the 1783 peace treaty.
@FractalBolt2
It's a deliberate and direct reference to one of Scorsese's previous and most popular gangster movies Goodfellas. In it a continuity mistake allows mob boss Paulie the godlike ability to start a sentence with a cigar and finish the last word transporting it to his hand. The shots are cut back to front.
Only Jack could deliver this fabulous opening.
That is utter brilliance where young sullivan reaches out his hand to shake costello's and costello grabs it and puts money in it.
It shows their characters. With costello its money with sullivan its respect and honor. It shows Costellos training of him and how costello grew up and how sullivan is growing up.
I love the way Nicholson is in darkness the whole way through this right up to ''Whats the difference''.
“Geez...she fell funny” 😂😂 love it
Best opening to a movie ever
"the comicbook is wolverine vs gambit. I don't think that exsisted during the 70s" - Wrath
Dang ! You´re right dude.